Trivia: What was the earliest use of gold between 4000 and 3000 BCE?
Jewelry
Coinage
Coffins
Weapons
The correct answer is Jewelry
So why is this answer correct? : Humans have been working with gold for thousands of years. When ancient civilizations first found gold, they saw it as a beautiful, decorative commodity, similar to how it’s used today. The earliest evidence researchers have of man-made gold objects is of jewelry and other ornamental pieces. Some of the oldest artifacts have been found in locations of Eastern European tribes — the Sumer civilization of southern Iraq, and ancient Egypt. Gold coins weren’t around until 600 BCE, when Lydia, an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor, began making them.